Dr. Thomas W. Ferkol is a Professor of Pediatrics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine and a member of the Marsico Lung Institute. He earned an undergraduate degree at Case Western Reserve University before pursuing his medical degree at Ohio State University. He returned to Case Western Reserve University for fellowship training in pediatric pulmonology and subsequently joined their pediatric faculty. He moved to the Washington University School of Medicine in 2000, where he was Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Physiology, and named the Alexis Hartmann MD Professor of Pediatrics in 2012. He was the long-standing Director of the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine, and various times served as Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center the Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Training Program at Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. He has special expertise in suppurative lung diseases, like cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, and non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. He currently co-leads the Genetic Disorders of Mucociliary Clearance Consortium, an established, multicenter collaborative that defines the genetics, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of inherited airway diseases. Dr. Ferkol was President of the American Thoracic Society, only the second pediatrician to serve in this capacity during the 120-year history of the organization.
